No-Carve Pumpkins

Bloggers share creative ideas for making pumpkins festive, without spilling their guts

  • Mummy Pumpkin

    Wrap It

     

    Give your pumpkin a second life as a ghoulish mummy. Sarah shares her know-how on Sah-Rah.com, demonstrating that there’s nothing tricky about how easy it is to make.

     

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  • Chevron Pumpkin

    Get Ziggy

     

    Everyone’s wearing stripes this season, including these fashion-forward chevron pumpkins from Erin at Feeling Lovesome. The options of paint + pumpkin are limited only by your creativity.

     

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  • Taped Pumpkin

    Tape It

     

    Take a cue from your favorite dapper dude with menswear-inspired washi tape designs. See more suspender-like natty results that make use of this fun Japanese masking tape at Sarah Hearts.

     

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  • Polka Dot Pumpkin

    Stack It Up

     

    These elegant black-and-white polka dot pumpkins make a towering impression. Avoid an upset with stacking tips from Allison from the Soladay Family Blog.

     

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  • Jute Wrapped Pumpkins

    Glue It

     

    Time to break out the glue gun! Add some neutral-colored jute or twine, and you’ve got some cute-but-rustic gourds. Jamie at That’s My Letter tops hers off with pieces of a fallen tree branch.

     

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  • Scrapbook Pumpkin

    Get Scrappy

     

    Reduce, reuse and recycle by repurposing fabric scraps into cute pumpkin leaves. Suzonne at Urban Comfort shares her oh-so-simple pattern.

     

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  • nailhead Pumpkins

    Get Pushy

     

    Christi Bennett puts nailheads to a glamorous new use in these monogrammed pumpkins featured at The Party Dress blog. It’s an easy way to bedazzle your gourds, even for those not-so-crafty souls.

     

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  • Decoupage Pumpkin

    Go Old School

     

    Erin from His & Hers blog relied on old-fashioned cutting and pasting to give these pumpkins a vintage look with pages from recovered art books. Try it with sheet music, newspaper or comic book pages, too.

     

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